Vicente Huidobro
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| Born | Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández Santiago, Chile |
| Died | Cartagena, Chile |
| Resting place | Cartagena |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | Spanish |
| Nationality | Chilean |
| Education | Colegio San Ignacio |
| Alma mater | Universidad de Chile |
| Period | Twentieth Century |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Literary movement | Creacionismo |
| Notable works | Altazor |
| Spouse | Manuela Portales Bello (1912), Ximena Amunátegui, Raquel Señoret |
| Children | 5 |
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Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández (January 10, 1893 – January 2, 1948) was a Chilean poet born to an family. He is known for promoting the Avant-garde literary movement in Chile, and the creator and greatest exponent of the literary movement called Creacionismo ("Creationism").
Huidobro was born into a wealthy family from Santiago, Chile. He spent his first years in Europe, and was educated by French and English governesses. Once his family was back in Chile, Vicente was enrolled at the Colegio San Ignacio, a Jesuit secondary school in Santiago, where he was expelled for wearing a ring that he claimed was a wedding ring.
In 1910 he studied literature at the Instituto Pedagogico of the University of Chile, but a good part of his knowledge of literature and poetry came from his mother, poet María Luisa Fernández Bascuñán. She used to host "tertulias" or salons in the family home, where sometimes up to 60 people came to talk and listen her talk about literature, with guests including members of the family, servants, maids and a dwarf. Later, in 1912, she would help him financially and emotionally to publish his first magazine "Musa Joven" (Young Muse).
In 1911 he published Ecos del alma (Echoes of the Soul), a work with modernist tones. The following year he married Manuela Portales Bello. In 1913 he published Canciones en la noche (Songs in the Night). The book included some poems previously published in "Musa Joven" as well as his first calligram, "Triángulo armónico" ("Harmonic Triangle").
In 1913, along with Carlos Díaz Loyola (better known as Pablo de Rokha), he published three issues of the magazine Azul (Blue), and published both Canciones en la noche and La gruta del silencio (The Grotto of Silence). The next year, he gave a lecture, Non serviam, in which he reflected on his aesthetic vision. The same year, in "Pasando y Pasando" (“Passing and Passing”), Vicente explained his religious doubts, earning himself the reproach of both his family and the Jesuits.
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